Latin definition for: hecatombe, hecatombes

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. (100 oxen/animals)
  2. hecatomb
  3. large public sacrifice
  4. sacrifice w/many victims
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
  • Geography: Greece
  • Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)

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